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yellowbellyhippy

yellowbellyhippy

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Where do you feed your snake? In it's viv or a seperate container? My baby's previous owner said she fed it in a different tub. Would it be bad to feed him in his viv? He is sooooo very tame. Also, do you hand them dinner with tongs or just toss it in?(frozen is all I will feed)

Thankyou!!!
 
I feed all of my (11) snakes in their enclosures... it's just not worth the risk of moving them, not to mention the hassle when you have multiple snakes. That old myth of them mistaking you for food is just that - a myth. ;) You should be fine feeding him in the tub!

Oh, and for my corn snakes I just place the thawed mouse on a plate/napkin, and lay it on the floor of their tub... Scout and no-name usually take it within seconds, and Joxer likes to wait until I'm asleep. My ball pythons are a different story, though, and usually require a full "zombie dance" when I attempt to feed them F/T prey. :cool:
 
I feed every snake except two in feeding bins. But I have 25 to feed! I lay out the bins, then I don't miss any snakes. While the snake is in its bin, its water bowl gets scrubbed and I spot clean its viv. Of the two that get fed in their vivs, one will now strike at anything in hopes that it is food, and the other, a corn, couldn't care less. Both are difficult feeders out of their vivs, one due to striking everything, like me walking by, instead of feeding, and one due to extreme pickiness.

I thaw the food, put it in the feeding bin, and go get the snake and put it in the bin. Some just eat, others have to be covered up and left alone for a while.
 
One thing to always consider is the snake dragging the prey through the aspen and swallowing it, leading to compaction. The potential problem is worth the effort of moving them to separate bins.

That said, I always feed my adult corn and my adult king in their vivs. I do, however, put their mice IN a tub so they have to go inside that tub to get it rather than drag it around collecting debris all over it. My others are fed in separate tubs.
 
LBoz said:
One thing to always consider is the snake dragging the prey through the aspen and swallowing it, leading to compaction. The potential problem is worth the effort of moving them to separate bins.

That said, I always feed my adult corn and my adult king in their vivs. I do, however, put their mice IN a tub so they have to go inside that tub to get it rather than drag it around collecting debris all over it. My others are fed in separate tubs.
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Good point, maybe I will do the different tub. For those of you who feed in the viv, do you use aspen?
 
LBoz said:
One thing to always consider is the snake dragging the prey through the aspen and swallowing it, leading to compaction. The potential problem is worth the effort of moving them to separate bins.
That's why I put the mouse on a plate or napkin, usually one that's significantly bigger than the prey... and as I've been told by other snake people, a little substrate ingestion won't hurt them. After all, they can digest teeth and claws! :cool: But the risk of impaction is one reason I use flat newspaper & paper towels for my BPs. Unfortunately the corns are more into burrowing, so I've been forced to use loose substrate (shredded paper or Aspen) for them.
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I feed all 70(ish) in their tubs/vivs. I have aspen in some, and cypress in others (for the boas and pythons). A few are on paper towels right now because I'm out of aspen. LOL
 
yellowbellyhippy said:
Good point, maybe I will do the different tub. For those of you who feed in the viv, do you use aspen?
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Just kind of answered this above, but normally I do not use Aspen - mostly because of my allergies, which have been acting up since I brought home Joxer with a tank full of the stuff. :( So for my BPs I just use flat newspaper or paper towels, and usually shredded paper or Carefresh for the corns. But for those without allergies, Aspen does seem to be the preferred bedding.
 
Lolo said:
That's why I put the mouse on a plate or napkin, usually one that's significantly bigger than the prey... and as I've been told by other snake people, a little substrate ingestion won't hurt them. After all, they can digest teeth and claws! :cool: But the risk of impaction is one reason I use flat newspaper & paper towels for my BPs. Unfortunately the corns are more into burrowing, so I've been forced to use loose substrate (shredded paper or Aspen) for them.
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But there is a significant difference between calcium and cellulose. Very few animals can properly digest cellulose, and snakes are not one of them. Yes, a little every now and then won't immediately hurt them.

The way I look at it is that in the wild, they don't have someone to put their dinner on a plate/napkin/papertowel. They ingest dirt, sticks, leaves, etc. all the time.
 
RobbiesCornField said:
The way I look at it is that in the wild, they don't have someone to put their dinner on a plate/napkin/papertowel. They ingest dirt, sticks, leaves, etc. all the time.
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True true... I used to just lay them directly on the substrate, but one of my BPs got a mouthful of Carefresh that scared her off feed for a few weeks. She was SO offended, LOL. :crying: Since then I've used a paper towel or paper plate, and it hasn't been an issue so far.
 
RobbiesCornField said:
The way I look at it is that in the wild, they don't have someone to put their dinner on a plate/napkin/papertowel. They ingest dirt, sticks, leaves, etc. all the time.
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Except what they kill hasn't been thawed in water and doesn't have wet fur. No matter how well you dry it, if it touches the aspen, aspen is going to stick to it. And having seen a snake go rolling around the viv killing its prey that you have previously placed in an aspen-free zone, I can say there's no guarantee, if you feed in the viv, your snake isn't going to ingest aspen. It isn't a risk I like, and I am not willing to take that risk with the majority of my snakes.
 
Mine usually thaw in about 15 minutes or so, but it's usually a good half an hour before I get it to the snake, so I have to reheat with more hot water. I dry mine, but like Nanci said, it's still going to get aspen on it if it touches it. My two adults aren't strikers, but I've only learned that as I've gotten to know them. My younger snakes definitely are, so I don't take the chance. Like someone on here said once, "it's not a problem until it's a problem."
 
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